i'm leaning towards blaming Brees and his contract and personnel decisions. With Brees contract we lost Nicks, Meachem, and Porter. But mainly Nicks. Its clear Brees has more dinero in his pockets but those pockets are taking a beating. That to me is his own doing.

Our WR corps are a mess, Colston is out there running half speed with a foot, and Morgan is a mess. Lance Moore is doing ok but he's our only option right now it seems. No one is getting seperation. Sometimes you don't know what you got till its gone. I'm sure Meachems speed downfield opened alot of the underneath stuff up. Devery's injury isn't helping things.

Then there is Ingram which looks more and more like a waste every game. He just has no speed or vision and one move which is straight ahead into the pile. At least Ivory has the speed to bounce outside and the power to break a tackle. Ingram lack of anything killed too many drives today.

Then of course there is the D which is still a HUGE work in progress. We really need Vilma out there along with Lofton. I'm not sure what to say about the play of our safeties at this point.....

it all adds up to a very mediocre season. So all in all i think our performance is based on our personnel decisions we have made not so much on the abscence of the Coach.

There's also a thread calling the Hardy sack a late hit and bashing the refs for Brees getting hurt. Apparently Hardy should have been flagged for driving him into the ground... even though he still had the ball when he was hit.

No matter how bad this forum gets at times, the ratio of idiots doesn't even approach Saints* report.